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Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger is required. If you're using Safari, click the download link. When the widget download is complete, Show Dashboard, click the Plus sign to display the Widget Bar and click the widget's icon in the Widget Bar to open it. If you're using a browser other than Safari, click the download link. When the widget download is complete, unarchive it and place it in /Library/Widgets/ in your home folder. Show Dashboard, click the Plus sign to display the Widget Bar and click the widget's icon in the Widget Bar to open it.

12 comments:

Jeff H.
said...

Excellent work!

I've created multiple widgets, and have had a descrabbler in the back of my mind.. but lazily never took the time to even approach it. I haven't even looked at your code yet, but I'm sure it's lots of stuff that I didn't think of.

Thanks for taking the time and effort for all of us Scrabble lovers out there.

Is there a newer version available? I'm on OS X 10.4.11, and nothing happens when I click the "?" on this version. In the console, I see "2008-03-29 08:48:20.137 DashboardClient[26136] (com.keilly.widget.WordFinder) file:///Users/my_user_name/Library/Widgets/Word%20Finder.wdgt/Word%20Finder.html: Object (result of expression lookup) does not allow calls. (line: 27)(event handler):Object (result of expression lookup) does not allow calls."

Both a 10.4 version and a 10.5 version are linked to above. Have you tried both?I no longer have access to a 10.4 machine, so if you have tried it and it doesn't work I can't really help.The 10.4 version should work though.

I tried the 10.5 version on a 10.5 computer, and it worked once, after I logged out and logged back in. But I couldn't get it to work again (it kept reporting No Bingos), and there were no errors reported in Console.

But, I found that the 10.4 version would work on my 10.5 computer. It only reports words that use all letters though - i.e. if I put in seven letters, it only comes back with seven letter words. It would be nice to also get six letter words, five letter words, etc.